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The Orgasm Gap

7 Strategies to Help Women Experience Sexual Pleasure

Many women struggle with orgasm in heterosexual relationships. Here are seven strategies therapists can use to empower female clients to experience more... Read more

7 Benefits of Concurrent Couples Therapy

Revisiting an Underappreciated Approach

Concurrent couples therapy has advantages over conjoint therapy that get overlooked by many therapists. Discover 7 ways concurrent couples therapy can improve... Read more

Supercharging Art Therapy with AI

A Surprising New Tool to Enhance Trauma Healing

Using AI art therapeutically is still a novel idea in the field of art therapy. For clients wary of traditional forms of creative expression, it allows them to... Read more

When Clients Ask for Session Notes

Tips for Navigating a Legal Gray Zone

Few things can spook therapists as much as emails from former clients requesting session notes for a legal proceeding, but handling these requests thoughtfully... Read more

Shaping Consensual Nonmonogamy Agreements

The Five Steps Therapists Need to Consider

When opening a relationship, the agreement-making process is far more important than the agreements themselves. Read more

The Art of Detaching from Results

How We Measure Our Competence Matters

For therapists, doing something they love that challenges them—independent of their work with clients—can bring balance to their practice. Read more

Therapists Take the Stand

What You Need to Know about Being an Expert Witness

You know your clinical expertise is of value to your clients, but it can also be important for judges and juries in court. Read more

Demystifying Walk and Talk Therapy

How to Get Outside With Clients

Are your perceptions of the risks and rewards of walk and talk therapy accurate? Read more

3 Tips for Working with Hard-to-Reach Clients

Matching Your Clinical Style with Your Client’s Needs

Are you matching your self-presentation and efforts with your clients' emotional capacity to respond? Read more

The Dual Nature of Trauma Bonding

Beyond Abuser and Victim

Partners who associate love and intimacy with the painful family dynamics of their formative years can get stuck in a familiar bond that’s hard to shake... Read more

Sometimes, transformational growth happens when we least expect it. Read more

Unlocking the Potential of Holistic Healing

Four Strategies to Bring the Body into Therapy

As the world embraces the theory of how trauma is captured in the body, clinicians are introducing clients to holistic healing techniques like sound baths and... Read more

Helping Couples Ask for What They Want

Communication in Couples Counseling

A therapist explains why it's so hard for partners to ask for what they need and how couples counseling can help. Read more

Tapping Our Way into Healing

A Simple, Empowering Tool for Self-regulation

Tapping, a simple tool for self-regulation, can be surprisingly fun and easy to teach clients. Read more

Rethinking Codependence

An Attachment-Based Framework for Caregivers

Does codependency pathologize our natural willingness to help those we love? Read more

The Pursuer–Withdrawer Sexual Dynamic

Addressing the Three Threads of Attachment

What if we viewed differences in how much two partners want sex as an attachment issue, not one of desire? Read more

Igniting the Spark

You Don’t Have to be a Sex Therapist to Treat Low Desire

You don't have to be a sex therapist to help your clients with diminished sexual desire. Read more

Weighing Your Clients’ Needs Against Your Own

The Ethics of Handling Your Personal Crisis

What are the ethics of carrying on with your regular practice when dealing with an ongoing personal crisis or medical emergency? Read more

Are We Treating Binge Eating All Wrong?

Removing the Shame and Building Self-Trust

Binge-eating disorder is the most common eating disorder, but it’s also the most underdiagnosed and misunderstood. Read more

When ADHD Does the Parenting

Putting Adults Back in the Driver’s Seat

Parenting with untreated adult ADHD poses inherent difficulties for the entire family. Read more

Reducing Client Dropout

What Makes a Difference?
Bernard Schwartz

How to build a therapeutic relationship from the first session that keeps clients coming back. Read more

Managing Your Waitlist

How to Tackle the Ethical Dilemmas

How to tackle the ethical dilemmas Read more

Embracing a Shared Retirement Vision

Helping Older Couples Make Rewarding Choices

Helping older couples create a shared vision for their retirement years. Read more

Unshed Tears

Helping Kids Work through Unresolved Grief

Many of the ways that children grieve differently from adults can go unrecognized and unprocessed. Read more

Healing Beyond Words

How to Bring Art into Therapy

Integrating art therapy tools into your practice doesn’t have to be complicated, nor does it require artistic skill from you or your client. Read more

I’d Rather Clean the Toilet than Write Progress Notes

Making Peace With An Essential Task

Writing progress notes doesn’t have to be a bore. Read more

The Threat Response of Appease

Do You Know It When You See It?

How can therapists address historical trauma and the common threat response of appeasement? Read more

Gender-Affirmative Therapy for Kids

What Parents Need to Know

Supporting transgender children doesn’t always mean rushing toward medical intervention. Read more

The Child Confidentiality Bind

How to Involve Families When Treating Teens
Laura Kastner

It’s a tall order to maintain a teen client’s privacy and build rapport with them when you’re including their parents in the mix. But having the right... Read more

The Transformative Power of Loss

Helping Clients Cope with Aging and Grief

Facilitating bereavement support groups for aging clients. Read more

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